About the session
Over the past years there has been a shift of interest on Autonomous Systems. Once considered academic experiments operating in university laboratories, today we find them in both civilian and military applications, particularly in the form of autonomous vehicles and robotics.
The scientific community has benefit of the availability of affordable sensors, communications systems and powerful computers which together with developments in control algorithms, sensor fusion and decision-making, are enabling their deployment as part of our daily activities.
Within this context, control engineering provides the underlying framework that enables the emergence of autonomous capabilities of such systems. When considering moving platforms like autonomous cars we find control loops at the actuation level, at the longitudinal/lateral motion control, the decision making/path planning part and to ensure their safe operation.
